Baking Normal and AO Maps for Games with 3ds Max

Baking Normal and AO Maps for Games with 3ds Max, available at $19.99, has an average rating of 3.5, with 15 lectures, based on 21 reviews, and has 197 subscribers.

You will learn about Learn to bake flawless normal maps and ambient occlusion maps Learn tips and tricks to speed up your rendering pipeline and methods for baking high-to-low meshes This course is ideal for individuals who are Intermediate to advanced students interested in learning the tips to render flawless normal and AO maps It is particularly useful for Intermediate to advanced students interested in learning the tips to render flawless normal and AO maps.

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Summary

Title: Baking Normal and AO Maps for Games with 3ds Max

Price: $19.99

Average Rating: 3.5

Number of Lectures: 15

Number of Published Lectures: 15

Number of Curriculum Items: 15

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 15

Original Price: $19.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Learn to bake flawless normal maps and ambient occlusion maps
Learn tips and tricks to speed up your rendering pipeline and methods for baking high-to-low meshes

Who Should Attend

Intermediate to advanced students interested in learning the tips to render flawless normal and AO maps

Target Audiences

Intermediate to advanced students interested in learning the tips to render flawless normal and AO maps

In this tutorial we’ll show you all the necessary tips and tricks when baking Normal and Ambient Occlusion maps in 3ds Max, as well as explain the ins and outs of how to get perfect bakes from a high res mesh down to a game-ready low res mesh.

About the Instructor:

Alec Moody has been working in the game industry since 2003 and has contributed to numerous titles as a freelance artist. He holds a B.F.A. in photography from the Savannah College of Art and Design and Co-owns Handplane 3d LLC.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Baking Normal Maps Tips and Tricks!

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Silhouette

Lecture 3: Detail Scale

Lecture 4: Tapering

Lecture 5: Floating Geometry Waviness

Lecture 6: Triangulation

Lecture 7: Projection Modifier

Lecture 8: Triangle Stripping

Lecture 9: Projection Modifier

Lecture 10: Material ID Projection

Lecture 11: Mirroring Overlapping Geo

Lecture 12: Different Type of Normal Maps

Lecture 13: Vertex Count and Smoothing Groups

Lecture 14: Normal Map Baking Walkthrough

Lecture 15: Course Conclusion

Instructors

3dmotive LLC
High Quality 3d and Game Art Training by Industry Pros!

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3 stars: 2 votes
4 stars: 7 votes
5 stars: 9 votes

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